The first carrier to support Google's Jibe RCS technology was Sprint, back in November of last year. Since then, several carriers in Canada, Asia, and Europe have made the switch. Now it looks like Celcom will support Jibe RCS, becoming the first carrier in Malaysia to do so.

If you need a refresher, RCS is designed to replace SMS, with features like read receipts and high-quality media sharing. Similar to different email services 'talking' to each other, different RCS clouds are inter-operable as long as they use the RCS Universal Profile. Thus, anyone on a carrier supporting Jibe RCS or another Universal Profile cloud can use the technology.

Celcom did not provide a timeline on when Jibe RCS would be fully rolled out to its customers, but hopefully it won't be too long.

Comments

Santa Whiz

Yayy! Malaysia related news. Finally, I'm out of US internet.

Duder12

No good Android News sites in Malaysia?

MrLockermanMY

There is but it isn't as popular as AP.

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Duder12

Fuck TMobile for delaying their rollout by switching to Samsung's RCS

ProductFRED

Samsung RCS works with Google's/Universal. It's just that they prefer Samsung's backend infrastructure for whatever reason. None of this makes a difference to the user experience.

Duder12

Did you even read my post? I dont give a shit who they use.

Fuck TMobile for **delaying** their rollout by

ProductFRED

I understand your frustration, but there's got to be a good reason for it. Also, as someone who uses multiple pieces of Google software daily at work (many of them enterprise-level), I can tell you that Google's products are in perpetual beta. They're buggy, and they change features every 5 minutes, and their Enterprise support kind of sucks.

Wait what? Where did you read this? You have to be kidding right? We were supposed to get it like 3 months ago....What's the timeline now? If Sprint wasn't such crap, I'd switch in a heart beat. TMO is on thin ice with me.

MJ

Fucking Android Police... There is more to the world than Malaysia. Any news on the roll out of RCS in Uruguay?

vzwuser76

And what about the 5G rollout in Atlantis? I guarantee Arthur Curry is feeling left out. AP really needs to expand their coverage.

Can another answer these RCS questions.... Can I use Textra and someone else use a different SMS client, will RCS be working? As in 'reading, typing, etc' shows up. What about me using Textra and someone else using iMessage?

And I just found out how much Allo compresses images (pisses me off), will RCS not compress since it's 10MB limit? Or will it still compress for some ungodly reason?

What if Verizon uses RCS, but not the universal profile, will RCS still work for someone on verizon sending to Sprint? And would you have to use Verizon's messagin app for RCS to work? Is that a serious concern? Or will SMS clients (Textra) be able to implement RCS?

As far as I know, Google has not released any kind of API for RCS, so Textra hasn't (and can't) add support until they do. I'm not sure about image compression.

The Verizon/Sprint example you used wouldn't work, because Verizon's RCS implementation doesn't use the Universal Profile.

I can't really answer the app question, but I do know that Android Messages supports more than just Jibe RCS. Vodafone is still using their own RCS implementation (that supports the Universal Profile), but that works with Android Messages.

That it the worst news lol. MUST use their messaging app and nothing else. Basically defeats the purpose of RCS across different devices and carriers.

Jayson Stephenson

Don't feel so down, once the API's are released and T-Mobile rolls-out RCS. Any other US-based carriers will start feeling the pressure from it's users not being able to utilize the neat features. I think it will happen sooner or later.

senoredusty

That's not a real concern though, as Verizon is one of the backers of the UP :-) it's just a matter of when

My understanding, if the parent network implements RCS on it's network, the MVNO(s) using the host's network will not automatically gain access to the host's RCS.

The MVNO would have to set up their own RCS system, which they could do independent of their host. So an MVNO could have RCS even if it's host provider does not or presumably offer a different RCS.

Which leads one to wonder... If Google is pushing all of these various carriers to support Google's own RCS standard... The obvious question.... Why doesn't Google's Project Fi support Google's RCS yet??? Especially with the running gag being that using Google products means we're beta testers... One might argue that Google's own carrier would have been the perfect testing ground for their RCS. A relatively small subscriber base (most of which probably with above average tech skills, able to cope with beta testing a new feature) with a limited number of supported devices...

In @jaysonstephenson:disqus's linked article, it mentions RCS will work on cellular and WiFi data. If it accepts data from external, non-carrier controlled networks, then it, presumably at least, should be able to handle Fi's multi-carrier approach without too much issue.

Jayson Stephenson

You put it in better words than I could.

I believe the reason why we don't see carriers like Project Fi or many MVNO's using RCS yet is because they are still using data from the MNO's tower's. I think if Project Fi were to get RCS they would have to get permission from the other 3 carriers to zero-rate the services so they can still use the "Unlimited Messaging" claim without it being deducted from our bill.

MrLockermanMY

thank you @JG42:disqus and @jaysonstephenson:disqus for explanation :)

Nogib

RCS on Sprint was great...right up to the point it stopped working beginning of April and I haven't seen it come back to my phone yet. :(

aRvInD

I'm surprised Indian carrier Jio will be using Tech edge always, but for messaging it never thought about RCS...!

Jay

They have it enabled if you are using their useless jiovice client

s4k

Does RCS have any security features, or is it like SMS? Does it use your data connection?